Embedded PPC Root FIlesystem

I'm currently trying to build a complete (with gcc and all other toosl you'd expect to find on a full desktop install, but not X11) root filesystem for an embedded device (with hard drive). Is there already one out there, or does anyone have any suggestions on how to do it? I have no desktop PPC machines, only x86. I'm currently using one of the boot images from hard hat linux, but it doesn't have a compiler and some other things I wanted. This is all on a MPC857T processor. I've done embedded linux on x86 machines before, and I'm now finding that it's more difficult than I would have thought when I don't have a desktop depelopment machine if the same archetecture...

Thank You

Sacha

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It's not really that bad. You do not need a PPC based desktop. Cross compilers from the MVista people lets you build stuff on an x86 machine for your MPC. For your file system, you can look at BootDisk HOWTO where they talk about building a root file system from scratch.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/
Also, you learn how to reduce the file system size to fit into your embedded environment.
I would also suggest you read the PowerPC Embedded HOWTO by Graham Stoney.
http://penguinppc.org/usr/embedded/howto/PowerPC-Embedded-HOWTO.html

Hope this helps.

Navin Boppuri

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